Sayanee Sarkar, born in Siliguri, West Bengal in 1999, is a visual artist based in Vadodara, India. Her practice explores the tension between figuration and abstraction, often drawing from gestures of the body in private, intimate spaces. Working primarily with painting and drawing, Sayanee uses repetition, stain, and spontaneous mark-making on raw canvas and wood to investigate how visual cues can reveal as well as obscure meaning.
She graduated as a Master of Visual Arts in Painting from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda in 2024, and holds a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the Indian College of Arts and Draftsmanship, Kolkata, 2022. Her work has been featured in several group exhibitions across India, including Re: Figuring, Emami Art, Kolkata, 2025; The Baroda March, Rukshaan Art, Mumbai, 2025; Bodies under India Art Fair’s Young Collectors Programme, Delhi, 2025; IMAGINARIUM 4.0, Emami Art, 2024 — where she won the third Award of Excellence at the Open Call; Without Cube, MSU Fine Arts Faculty Gallery, Baroda, 2024; Pushpabaug, Anant Art Gallery, Noida, 2024; Potluck, MSU Baroda Fine Arts Faculty Gallery, Gujarat, 2023; FIRST TAKE, Abir India, Hutheesing Centre, Ahmedabad, 2023; and the Nasreen Mohamedi Scholarship Exhibition, MSU Baroda, Gujarat, 2022; and the Annual Exhibitions 2020 and 2022, Indian College of Art and Craftsmanship, Kolkata. She was also a part of the ceramics internship at Studio Calyx in Kolkata in 2023.
Sayanee Sarkar is currently developing a new body of work that explores the perception of ambiguous forms and the emotional residue of solitary interiors and questioning how ‘intimacy’ is perceived by individuals.
